Leah Bobet Quotes

#1. Oh, Atticus," it says soft, and the softness is scarier than the rest in its sorrow. "I'd have done anything you asked. I'd have been your sea and sky.

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#2. Ariel gets bad when she's scared. That's when she stings; that's what stings, scared things cornered.

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#3. I'd be your sky.

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#4. You'll come up with me?"
"I need it here", I said. "The dark. The quiet." A pause.
"The sinlight drove near mad."
"I'd be your dark.

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#5. What's the moral of the story?

People Above will hurt you. People Above will break you, and devour your heart raw.

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#6. People unite against things. People fight when they're scared and threatened, not to change, not for the future. They get it wrong in the other Tales. People don't fight for heroes: they fight for the monsters. For fear of the monsters in the dark.

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#7. Because even if we're strange and Cursed and Beasts, the people Above are monsters.

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#8. He like to read the ones that nobody came for; he didn't understand all of what they said, but he read them just in case. He like the way they made the world tilt different ways in his vision.

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#9. Keeping histories is as much about knowing what needs forgetting as what ought to be remembered.

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#10. She escaped from the schools when she turned eighteen. And she went on to be a Doctor, because the only way to fight what was wicked in the world was to work, hands and heart, for what was good and well.

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#11. Cora didn't know a whole lot about wendigo, but there were ways in which they were just like people: they wanted above everything to live through the night

("Stay")

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